Mop



May I, 1928 J. V. PETRONE MOP . Filed Nov. 11,

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Patented May 1, 1928.

UNITED. STATES JAMES V. FETRONE, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

MOP.

; Applieatioafiled November 11, 1927. Serial No. 232,690.

This invention relates to an improvement in mop constructions, Thefeatures of the invention will be best understood from the drawings andfollowing description.

Referring to the drawings Fig. 1 shows aform for the wire. core of themop head;

Fig. 2 shows a slightly modified form;

, Fig. 3 shows a mop head with its wire core dotted, themop,materialbound to the core, and the mop handle; and

Fig. i is a larger view of the parts in Fig. 3 with the mop materialomitted.

According to my invention I bend and shape the wire core of a mop headA. into the shape shown. A principal charzuwteristic of this shape isthat in it the core has two spaced legs 1 and 2 jointed by a diagonalleg 3. The mop handle it is attached at the center of the diagonal leg 3where the latter is bent into portion 3 at right angles to the otherlegs so as to take the handle. The shapes B and C illustrate that thesame characteristic can be readily embodied in modified forms.

The mop material, shown only at M in Fig. 8, is conveniently caughtbetween the twists of two wires which together form the wire core shownin the other figures.

This way of binding mop or brush material 'to a wire core is wellunderstood. In the case of a mop enough materialusually of a soft,flufi'y nature such as soft yarn for example, is assembled on the wirecore to make a large mop head, to quite effectively bury the wire coreand thus prevent rit from ever making direct contact when the mop isused to clean. a surface. One of my objects is to form the associationof core, mop material, and mop handle so that there is much lessliability of the handle end being pressed directly against the surfacecleaned by the mop.

This feature is attained in the mop shown by attaching the handle it onthe diagonal leg of the wire core of the mop. The handle socket 7 has atwo-part clamp or hearing arranged transversely at the end of thehandle, which bearing is opened and closed by a thumb nut to mountthehandle on portion 3. The bearing is arranged so that the wide core mayturn around in the clamp and thus the mop head may be reversed from timeto time to use its two sides and without any necessary change inposition of the handle 72 \Vhichever side of the mop is being used, thehandle may pivot on portion 3 and press the mop against a surface forcleaning purposes as the handle is swung back and forth or fromlside toside. In such use of the mop it will be-seen, particularly from Fig. 3,that the end of the handle occupies a position at the center of the mopmaterial as arranged. From such center the wire core of the mop branchesout from opposite sides of the bearing and in opposite directions, butonly for short distances relative to the size of the mop head. From theends of such branches the core is bent back on itself and extends beyondthe bearing in the opposite direction to bring its free ends todiagonally opposite points from the. central portion 3'. By thisarrangement the central portion 3' is braced quite effectively againstmoving out of the central plane of the mop head. The mop material can bereadily arranged on the core so that it naturally extends to a greaterdistance outwardly than it does inwardly. This may be accomplished bybinding the strands of the mop material in the twists of the wire corenear the strand ends, so that most of their lengths are left free tospread outwardly, as indicated generally in Fig. 3. But even withoutthis precaution, such material will extend far enough from the core ifthe said strands are long enough.

By bringing all the bracing points of the bent wire core as close to thebearing at the handle end as can be done and by positioning the mopmaterial so that it will spread out over the desired area. I attain abetter support for the handle end pressure than. in any similar type ofreversible mop head of which I am aware. The attachment of the handle tothe diagonal leg of the mop core necessarily puts pressure from thehandle onto diagonally opposite portions of the parallel legs where suchportions can best distribute it over the mop head to a surface forcleaning.

To increase the amount of mop material carried by the core. I may bendback on themselves the remote ends 5and 6 of the legs 1 and 2. These maybe bent outwardly as in Fig. l or imvardly as in Fig. l. In all thefigures it is apparent that I obtain a mop core of considerable lengthso as to carry a considerable amount of fluffy mop material withoutextending the core far from the handle attaching portion in anydirection. At the same time the mop material is effectively placed tocover a comparatively large area, because it extends much further fromthe handle than any parts of the core. The form of mop head core shownin Fig. 2 extends the parts from portion 3' more than in the otherfigures, but even in this shape the diagonally arranged free ends 8 and9 of the core B are braced against easy bending by the oppositelyarranged diagonal leg 3 which serves to join these free ends withportion 3 where the pressure is applied by the handle.

From the foregoing it will be seen that my new mop construction includesa mop head core which is inexpensive to make and which; primarily byshape alone, is arranged to coordinate a desired type or pivoted handleattachment (permitting); the mop head reversal) with a wide spread ofmop material so held by the handle as to keep the latter from readilypushing to its surface.

lVhat I claim is:

A mop made of an unbroken wire support formed from two strands of stifl'bendable wire twisted together with a continuous layer of fluffy mopmaterial bound between the twisted strands except for a short centralportion of the support, a handle pivotally mounted on said centralportion for complete rotation, the whole support with its mop materialbeing bent into an N-shape, with its legs substantially parallel exceptfor said central portion arranged at right angles to the legs, with thefree end portions of the side legs doubled'bacl't sharply on the sidelegs to form extra thickness of the fluffy mop material at such ends,and with sharp bends in the support where the side legs join thediagonal leg to form extra thickness at such corners, all constructed sothat the four corners of the N-shaped support locate bunched mopmaterial to brace the mop head against pressure from the centrallylocated handle arranged for complete relative rotation when the mop isin use.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

JAMES V. PETRONE.

